One of my 3rd great-grandfathers on my dad’s side, Joseph CUSHING, was born in 1790 supposedly in what is now Carroll County, Maryland. At the time of his birth, Carroll County had not been formed yet. I know a lot about Joseph actually. I have census records for 1820, 1840, 1850, and 1870. In all of them he is living… Read More

My father, Charles L. HEISER (1913-2001), was raised in Frederick, Maryland by his maternal grandparents, Montgomery PRICE (1859-1847) and Sally PYLES PRICE (1862-1940), both of whom were from Montgomery County, Maryland. Dad said that he remembered hearing that during the Civil War that some of his uncles fought against each other, brother against brother, one on the north side and… Read More

This week’s prompt for 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks is: Earliest. I decided to look at the earliest newspaper clippings for each of my surname lines. One caught my eye. In 1868, my third great grandfather, Jeremiah Grant (1815-1892) was elected Probate Judge in Marlboro County, South Carolina. According to the article in the Charleston Daily News newspaper on 6… Read More

The prompt for 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks is Dear Diary. For those that don’t have actually diary entries from an ancestor, it was suggested to write a diary entry that could have been written by an ancestor. So that’s what I did. This diary entry could have been made by my grandmother, Florrie THOMAS MARTIN (1894-1979). I have several… Read More

The summer I was 5 or 6, and my sister Joyce was 9 or 10, our mom (Gladys Martin Heiser) asked my Uncle Tommy to bring her some tomatoes the next time he came to visit. She wanted to put some in the freezer. A few weeks later Uncle Tommy brought us about four bushels of really ripe tomatoes. My… Read More